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Neutron Production Rates by Inverse-Beta Decay in Fully Ionized Plasmas

Nuclear Theory 2015-06-18 v2

Abstract

Recently we showed that the nuclear transmutation rates are largely overestimated in the Widom-Larsen theory of the so called `Low Energy Nuclear Reactions'. Here we show that unbound plasma electrons are even less likely to initiate nuclear transmutations.

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@article{arxiv.1401.5288,
  title  = {Neutron Production Rates by Inverse-Beta Decay in Fully Ionized Plasmas},
  author = {L. Maiani and A. D. Polosa and V. Riquer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.5288},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 Figure, minor revisions and clarifications, results unchanged. To appear in EPJC